Tristan Hughes was born in Atikokan, a small town in northern Ontario, Canada, where he lived for four years before moving to Anglesey (or Ynys Mon in Welsh), an island off the coast of north Wales. > Read more

Hughes's rapt and rhythmic prose captures all the secretive intensity of an "entire compacted country": not just thisisland of saints and sinners off the north Welsh coast, but youth itself. The Independent

Superbly accomplished...Hughes's prose is startling and luminous.Financial Times